Bring a cooler to keep in your car. Fruit, sandwiches, cokes, beer, cheese, crackers, etc. It may be the best food you get. There is an outdoor parking entrance that is the closest to the tournament. Some folks bring campers.

I'm 6'4", so I prefer either closer to the butt cap or wrapless on a standard length cue. It doesn't really bother me though if it's a standard wrap, I just find myself gripping the butt sleeve on quite a few shots. One day, I'll get a custom 60" or 62" cue made to see if I like that better or not.

I'm not a cue maker, but I would assume two things about using a standard wrap location. One, that's where most players would want the wrap, and two most high-end designs would use an ornate butt sleeve.

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the brand or where it is made shouldn't matter. it is all about what feels good in your hands and has the hit you like.

a cuestick is merely a tool. it is nice to have a special one, but don't forget its main and only purpose.

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as long as you know what you are spending on then it should be legal within moral boundaries.
that one state be allowed to make something illegal because some company or group has a monopoly on it seems wrong.

such as states which make some types of gambling illegal and even felonies, yet in casinos it is perfectly alright to do it.

skogstokig said:

arseni lost first match to unknown taiwanese. duong is down to another one i've never heard of

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Unknown now but not unknown before. 2x Women World 9B Champ few decades ago. Should be in her 2nd half century now

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and for a real pool hall to make it nowadays it has to have great food and drinks. and machines that take your money whatever is legal in that state.

and an area with smaller tables as a great amount of new players and league players want that.

if stuck in the past mindset might as well make wagon wheels they are cheaper.

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slot machines and poker machines are almost essential to keep a room afloat here, especially daytime. i don't have a problem with it and don't see why it should be illegal.. people make choices with their money all the time (and when they're not, their bank is gambling with said money)

hey kris,

years back many raised a family and or made just a living and couldn't or didn't put and invest for the future.

as was told you would be able to live off social security when you retire.

that didn't hold true with inflation that hit things over what the index said.

sad but many are right on the poverty level after retirement. so the golden years are not so golden.

coco seems though to have his life together.

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looks almost like my walk to work today. at least someone shoveled the stairs